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    <p>Start with what each of technologies can do for you and match that against your requirements re: content delivery. Assuming each is just as good as the other for the purpose at hand, and that you have the requisite skills in each or dont mind learning them to produce your content, then dont see player distribution as a problem.</p> <p>Users not having the priviledges to install the player should it be absent would generally be considered an edge case. If your site is specifically targeting a user group to which this is more likely to apply then obviously it requires deeper consideration but at the end of the day you're always going to have a percentage of surfers who cant do something, or use something, for some reason. In this case it's likely a small percentage and good design dictates some form of graceful degradation regardless of the technology being deployed.</p> <p>Your other questions re: user preferences is difficult to gauge. <a href="http://silverlight.net/showcase/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Here</a> is a list of sites that clearly dont think its an issue. You'd have to extrapolate the adoption rate numbers but <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/archive/2009/02/27/silverlight-adoption-a-few-numbers.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this link</a>, albeit to an MS blog entry, suggests the adoption rate is high, especially considering Silverlights relatively short life.</p> <p>You also have to factor in that it's an MS technology so you're going to benefit from Windows Update, etc and the strength of the MS marketing machine.</p> <p>Recommendation: Go for it. The more the merrier.</p> <p>..</p> <p>Richard</p>
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